Rate My Professor Abigail Lewis

Lewis’s research centers on professional identity formation in speech pathology students and new graduates, clinical education to enhance placement readiness through simulation and virtual reality, reflective practice and supervision, and quality rural work-integrated learning. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA). Key publications include "Professional Identity Formation in Allied Health: A Systematic Review with Narrative Synthesis" (Lewis, Jamieson, & Smith, 2023, Teaching and Learning in Medicine), "Perceived professional identity formation and influencing characteristics among speech pathology students" (Lewis, Jackson, & Bennett, 2025, Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability), "Utilisation of simulation-based learning to decrease student anxiety and increase readiness for clinical placements for speech-language pathology students" (Petrich et al., 2024, International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology), "Working with children with autism: an interprofessional simulation-based tutorial for speech pathology and occupational therapy students" (Lewis, Rudd, & Mills, 2018, Journal of Interprofessional Care), and "Decolonizing Speech-Language Pathology practice in acquired neurogenic disorders" (Penn et al., 2017, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups). Her work contributes to interprofessional education, student wellness, and ePortfolio implementation in speech pathology.